While the President, and even members of Congress attempt to keep us in a state of fear on a daily basis, it would appear we have much more to fear in the products being "sold" which have the "seal" of approval.
Today's news offers J&J recalling 32 million "pain patches" due to "leakage":
Citing fears that a number of Duragesic or Sandoz pain patches could leak and expose handlers to harmful levels of the potent pain drug fentanyl, Johnson & Johnson is recalling 32 million recently manufactured patches.
The recall includes all lots of 25-microgram Duragesic patches sold in the U.S. and Canada by the company's PriCara division and Sandoz Inc. J&J estimates that about 64 patches, or two per million, present the leakage risk.
We are offered some reassurance by this article in the following statement (a haha)
While no deaths have been reported in relation to the patch lots being recalled, J&J says, those who accidentally expose themselves to the gel could suffer "respiratory depression" and possibly fatal overdose.
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Other consumer product news today doesn't offer much reassurance. There is an article about Toy's R Us instituting its own stricter safety standards; but who can fail to have missed all the news about imported toys, lead, safety standards, and just what our "inspections" office looked like...
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I must say that we should truly feel comfort when the FDA asserts that an infant vaccine offered by Glaxo "appears safe"
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal regulators said Friday a GlaxoSmithKline vaccine appears safe and effective for stopping the leading cause of diarrhea in infants.
However, Food and Drug Administration officials expressed concern that British drug maker's safety study of the vaccine did not follow U.S. regulations.
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Now for any who might have read "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair, reading an article such as Lawmakers Want School Lunch Meat Probe doesn't really bring me any comfort at all about conditions in US slaughterhouses:
The U.S. Agriculture Department suspended operations at Westland/Hallmark Meat Co., a major supplier to school lunch programs, after last month's release of a video by The Humane Society of the United States that showed disabled cows being kicked and shocked at the facility.
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Who hasn't read about the trailers utilized by FEMA for post-hurricane shelter. Recent news reported FEMA selling off toxic trailers at half price, and then buying them back out of safety concerns for full price (someone sure made a bundle of money there). In the meantime, hurricane victims on the Gulf coast (and even some in my State of Florida) continuing living in these contaminated trailers simply out of inability to find affordable housing.
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Here you can find a number of links to other consumer product and product liability issued offered at Findlaw...
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While globalization seems to be the wave of today and the future, nobody is watching over the hens in the henhouse. The Republican school of thought is to reduce all of government, including agencies and safety standards that were introduced a century ago as a result of books like "The Jungle", and as a result of "Labor Unions", and as a result of public health standards. Of course, I really don't have much confidence that our Democratic Party is doing much in the way of restoring some of the oversite that was hard-fought that century ago.
For any who have never read "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair...please try to pick up a copy and read it...it was a real eye-opener for me on not only slaughterhouse operations of the late 19th century and early 20th century, it will give you some insight as to how immigrants of the past and of today were and are mistreated and abused.